Roscoe Ates
Birthday: 1895-01-19
Place of Birth: Grange, Mississippi, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia Roscoe Ates (January 20, 1895 – March 1, 1962) was an American vaudeville performer, actor of stage and screen, comedian and musician who primarily was featured in western films and television. He was best known as western character Soapy Jones.
Movies
The Palm Beach Story
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, de...
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Alice in Wonderland
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderla...
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City Girl
A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the inte...
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The Champ
A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son....
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Can't Help Singing
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young arm...
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What! No Beer?
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters...
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Sham Poo, the Magician
Hugh Herbert and Roscoe Ates are in a bar where all the men wear fezzes. They are trying to make tim...
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The People's Enemy
Money was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by ...
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Birth of the Blues
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts ...
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Merry Wives of Reno
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces....
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Three Texas Steers
Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons ...
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God's Country and the Woman
Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve ...
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Chad Hanna
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls i...
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Black Hills
When Hadley finds gold on his land, Kirby kills him and then goes after Hadley's ranch. After Eddie ...
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The Roadhouse Murder
After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper...
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The Great Lover
An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy....
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Billy the Kid
Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted...
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Dizzy & Daffy
A half-blind minor league pitcher meets, and nicknames, Dizzy and Daffy Dean, who go on to play for ...
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Politics
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town....
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The Big Shot
A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to ...
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Woman in the Dark
A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in a...
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out....
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The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
A group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately, U.S. ...
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The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
A group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately, U.S. ...
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify...
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Wild Country
Caxton has broken out of prison and Eddie has been sent to bring him in. Caxton is known by the polk...
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The Stranger Wore a Gun
Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wante...
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Too Many Cooks
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause ...
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Tumbleweed Trail
Eddie Dean's assignment is to thwart the efforts of a crooked gambler, Brad Barton, to take over the...
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The Tioga Kid
Ranger Eddie Dean is looking for the outlaw the Tioga Kid, a man he closely resembles. He runs into ...
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Colorado Serenade
Duke Dillon has his gang robbing stagecoaches carrying gold which is then melted down by his father....
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Driftin' River
Eddie Dean (Eddie Dean) and his partner Soapy Jones (Roscoe Ates), under government orders, proceed ...
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Come Next Spring
Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed...
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Reducing
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out...
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Ladies of the Jury
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus gi...
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The Blazing Forest
Estranged brothers (John Payne, Richard Arlen) find themselves on the same lumberjack crew hired by ...
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Scarlet River
Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake'...
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On the Wagon
Henry and Elmer stay out all night, then fear returning home because of their formidable mother-in-l...
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I'll Sell My Life
A woman hoping to raise cash to pay for an operation to restore her blind brother's eyesight finds h...
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The Hawk of Powder River
B-western starring Eddie Dean as a singing lawman who comes to the aid of a pretty rancher (June Car...
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Ziegfeld Girl
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautif...
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The Sheepman
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as ...
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Cimarron
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a ...
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Gone with the Wind
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...
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You're Next!
Two goofball private detectives are hired to find a millionaire who has been kidnapped by a mad scie...
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Tornado Range
Tornado Range is one of five Eddie Dean westerns originally produced by PRC in 1947 but released the...
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Untamed
A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community f...
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Shadow Valley
At least 10 percent of the 58-minute Eddie Dean western Shadow Valley is comprised of stock shots fr...
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Reg'lar Fellers
Based on the comic strip by Gene Byrnes, the "Reg'lar Fellers", and one girl-feller, tinker with bui...
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The Great Moment
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia...
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Hold 'Em Jail
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship ...
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Check and Double Check
Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a so...
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Captain Caution
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British d...
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The Cheyenne Kid
Chasing a gambler that stole money, Tom Larkin gets his horse shot out from under him. Meeting an ou...
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Down Missouri Way
When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a ne...
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Riders of the Black Hills
Riders of the Black Hills is a 1938 American Western directed by George Sherman. The intrepid cowboy...
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She Made Her Bed
"Duke" Gordon (Robert Armstrong), a circus lion-tamer, tries to tames his wife, Laura (Sally Eilers)...
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The Ladies Man
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a...
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Renegades of the West
A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father....
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The Cowboy from Sundown
The drought-plagued ranchers of Sundown have to market their cattle at a loss in order to meet mortg...
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The Silent Call
Young Guy Brancato and parents have to move from Elko, Nevada to Los Angeles, California, they are ...
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King Kong
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has...
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Love in the Rough
When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he concea...
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Those Three French Girls
An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and lea...
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Thunder in the Pines
Loggers Jeff Collins and Boomer Benson compete for a mail-order bride by means of a timber-cutting c...
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Fair Exchange
“Criminologist stages the theft of a picture to thwart his son's ambitions to be a detective.” - BFI...
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Stars Over Texas
Eddie Dean is a Cattlemen's Association agent investigating a serious rash of rustlings along with s...
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Hills of Oklahoma
In this remake of Gene Autry's 1942 "Call of the Canyon", Rex Allen, the newly-elected head of the c...
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Rancho Grande
A ranch foreman (Gene Autry) helps three youngsters protect their inheritance from foreclosure....
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Robin Hood of the Pecos
Robin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Fol...
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Wild West
Eddie and his sidekicks have been called in to help get a new telegraph line through. Dawson and his...
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The Westward Trail
Ann and Tom Howard arrive from the east to take up ranching. But Tom wants to return and forges his ...
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Range Beyond the Blue
Singing cowboy Eddie Dean and his sidekick Soapy (Roscoe Ates) enter into the thick of things when t...
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West to Glory
Two con-men from the East come out West to join up with Avery. They plan to steal the Lopez diamond ...
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Golden Harvest
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious ...
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Check Your Guns
Singing sheriff enacts old west gun control to thwart outlaws and crooked judge....
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Bad Men of Missouri
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of Wi...
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Those Redheads from Seattle
A woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Alaska during the Gold Rush to find their fortune....
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Soup to Nuts
Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions...
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So You Won't T-T-T-Talk
A hen-pecked husband takes his shrewish wife, and her obnoxious little brother, on a weekend camping...
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Why Pay Rent?
Elmer fixes up a room for his just-married, freeloading brother-in-law and wife. When the newlyweds ...
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Lucy Gallant
A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil ...
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The Big House
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he m...
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The Past of Mary Holmes
Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down s...
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Come on Danger!
Sam Dunning, one of the wealthiest ranchers in the Pecos Valley is found dead with a bullet in his b...
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She Knew All the Answers
A rich playboy wants to marry a chorus girl, but he'll lose his fortune if his trustee doesn't appro...
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A Free Soul
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when hi...
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Father's Wild Game
The fourth entry in Monogram's "Father" series. Henry Latham decides he'll save money by hunting for...
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The Rainbow Trail
The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's ...
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Freaks
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his defor...
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They de...
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One Foot in Heaven
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another....
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Double Cross Roads
Ex-convict David Harvey attempts to go straight and settles in a small town where he meets and falls...
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